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It’s a very silly episode this week for some reason. No, not silly, Happy, Happy as a Clam. This phrase sets the tone of the show for some strange reason. Could it have been the rainy day in North Carolina infecting us all with crazy, silly? Or is it that international talk like a pirate day happening on Saturday? Who knows? All we know is we have a great set of tags this week from: wideawakewesley, epredator, kevinaires, rickmans, lbenitez300, heidigoseek, and bluebus. Enjoy the show!

What’s Cool
Andy — Speaking about on-line Personas and Social Collaboration
Michael R — Dungeons & Dragons online
Michael M — Ben Stiller shills for followers

Obligatory 3-D Internet
Augmented reality futures (wideawakewesley)
SL and 3D Models merger? (epredator)
Cisco Virtual Event Analysis (kevinaires / epredator)
Should have schools embraced SL by now? (wideawakewesley)

Tech-no-tronic
Augmented reality contact lens (rickmans)
Cordless electricity WiTricity (lbenitez3000)
We control the horizontal… stereoscopic pictures (uncommonman)
Beethoven visualization (heidigoseek)
Taking pictures with a CRT (doorstop) (rickmans)
The sky of earth (bluebus)

Social Networkin’
jajah @call twitter calling (lbenitez3000)

Final thoughts
Andy — flickroom
Michael R — nutin
Michael M — Monopoly City Streets Reset!

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The regular team is back – temporarily – before Michael Rowe heads off on vacation. Michael, Andy and Michael examine the shinyness of virtual world voice chat and new iPhones, but then realise that the GPS system is about to crash. Oh, and there’s a discussion about ten big tech failures too – any nominations for the official Dogear Nation list?

This week’s editor (Andy) would like to apologise for all the Skype chat noises during the episode – the beating will continue until performance improves!

Show Tags

What’s Cool?
Michael R — Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? | The Onion [bonus link - BFG 9000!]
Michael M — kiambogo tweetup, and cool and unusual ice cube trays
Andy — new Polaroid instant digital camera

TOTDIS (guess the acronym)
The Future is Here….The Virtual World for Large Meetings! – CISCO (epredator)
Second Life Gives Avatars Real Voice (kevinaires)
Second Life Has Skype In Its Sights (andypiperuk) [bonus link - Sparkle IM iPhone SL chat app]

Technotronic
Source Reveals Specs And Release Date of Next iPhone (carolinabigblue)
Sony Pictures CEO hates the Internet (epredator)
Owners’ rights to copy DVDs (lx5)
GPS system ‘close to breakdown’ (andypiperuk)

The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade (duckboxxer) – do you agree with this list? suggest your own ideas in the comments!
Facebook an OpenID Relying party (uncommonman)
Early Adopters and Finding “The Next Shiny Object” (andypiperuk)
The Great Address Book Cleanup (lx5)

Taking a sidetrack
SOMESSO conference in 3 minutes
ipadio and ipadio iPhone app

Final thoughts
Michael M — soap and LEGO architecture
Michael R — regrets [bonus link - despair.com] and off-the-grid for 2 weeks
Andy — following up contacts from conferences

The best leftover listener links
Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities (mikerowe01)
Augmented Reality & The Web: Present and Future Scenarios (mikerowe01)
Ebay claims victory in luxury fakes dispute (lx5)
Brussels fines Intel record $1.4bn on grounds of antitrust (lx5)
German motorway strewn with notes (lx5)
Visa Develop Bank Card With Its Own Keypad And Digital Display To Combat Online Shopping Fraud (kevinaires)

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The Michael’s squeeze out one more show before the end of the year. With each of them taking a bit of well deserved time off with family and friends, we miss our new co-host Andy Piper, but we soldier on anyway (btw, Andy provided us with a ton of great tags to choose from). In the spirit of helping with the economic woes, we look at a SecondLife live music aggregator with links to where you can buy the music from the in world musicians. We then look at Hype Cycles, a cool new Laptop from Lenovo (but is it cool enough), Panasonic’s iPod killer (not really), Cisco’s Telepresence tools, an iPhone VNC, games, and the top 10 cars we want (AND WE WANT THEM NOW!!!). We wish everyone a healthy, outstanding, prospers, and exciting new year, and Don’t forget to tag it with “Dogear-Nation.”

Show Tags

Obligatory 3-D Internet
iTunes in SL
Greenies
SL hype cycle (is it recumbent?) — (Sweettt)

Mobile computing
Lenovo’s Dual Screen
Panasonic ipod
Nintendo DS
Cisco telepresence

Mac-a-rooni
Jaadu control your desktop from your iPhone
Jaadu review
Refurbished Apple TV
Copy & Paste for iPhone
Space Deadbeef

And other way-cool stuff
Expressway through the heart of a building
Cars we want!
Han Solo Foldo

Final Thoughts
Michael M – Have a great new year
Michael R – And Don’t forget to tag it — “Dogear-Nation”!!!

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Michael and Michael welcome Pranab Sharma from IBM’s Virtual Universe Community. We focus on Signing Avatars, Real Race cars, Cool Software and $5 Dollar Water.

Communication Section:
Tuba Hero – http://www.theonion.com/content/news/activision_reports_sluggish_sales?utm_source=digg_1
IBM Creates Signing Avatars – http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JSFEGYFBTFRYAQSNDLQCKIKCJUNN2JVN?articleID=201806222
Mastor Speech to Speech Translation – http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.uit.innovation.html
40 Watt Club – http://www.40watt.com/
The Man Cave – http://www.baekdal.com/design/architecture/qube-private-space/

Virtual Worlds Section:
Cisco Virtual Worlds Blog – http://blogs.cisco.com/virtualworlds/
ePredator’s real world drive – http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JSFEGYFBTFRYAQSNDLQCKIKCJUNN2JVN?articleID=201806222
IAC Acquires Majority share of GarageGames – http://www.garagegames.com/news/13587
Only a Lad Paroday – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD7aI45cRrE

Software Section:
Notes code added to Open Office – http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YQUYWPGKNHSQCQSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201805296
Lotus Symphony – http://tahoe.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa
Graphics for Mac – http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Environmental Section:
$5 Bottle of Water – http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html
Eco Drive – http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/09/12/frankfurt-2007-fiat-and-microsoft-announce-ecodrive-datalogging/

Listener Tag -
Google Zietgeist – http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

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